Personal glossary - sports nutrition 3
Personal glossary - sports nutrition 3
18 null terms
- conduction
- Conduction is when heat moves from one object to another object through direct touch. Be it liquid, solid or gas.
- convection
- process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid such as air or water.
- electric communication
- Neurons communicate using both electrical and chemical signals. Electrical signals in muscles cause contraction and movement.
- electrolyte
- the ionized or ionizable constituents of a living cell, blood, or other organic matter.
- evaporation
- The change of a liquid into a vapor at a temperature below the boiling point. Evaporation takes place at the surface of a liquid. As such: respiratory tract or skin.
- extracellular compartment
- fluid compartment exterior to cells. It includes the interstitial fluid, blood plasma, and fluids found in other reservoirs in the body.
- fluid compartments
- The two main fluid compartments are the intracellular and extracellular compartments.
- heat acclimatization
- the improvement in heat tolerance that comes from gradually increasing the intensity or duration of work performed in a hot setting.
- hypertonic
- having a higher osmotic pressure than a particular fluid, typically a body fluid or intracellular fluid.
- hypothalamus
- hypothalamusThe hypothalamus is an area of the brain that produces hormones that control:
Body temperature, Heart rate, Hunger, Mood, Release of hormones from many glands, especially the pituitary gland, Sex drive, Sleep, Thirst
- hypotonic
- having a lower osmotic pressure than a particular fluid, typically a body fluid or intracellular fluid.
- intracellular compartment
- The intracellular fluid (ICF) compartment is the system that includes all fluid enclosed in cells by their plasma membranes
- isotonic
- An isotonic solution is one that has the same osmolarity, or solute concentration, as another solution.
- osmolality
- the concentration of a solution expressed as the total number of solute particles per kilogram.
- radiation
- Radiation is the transfer of energy through waves (electromagnetic radiation). The sun emits heat via sun rays.
- relative humidity
- The amount of water vapor actually in the air, expressed as a percentage of the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at the same temperature.
- Tension-Heat Index
- also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature.
- tonicity
- Tonicity is defined as the ability of a solution surrounding a cell to cause that cell to gain or lose water (Urry et al., 2017). While osmolarity is an absolute quantity, tonicity is relative.